Mateos and Dvoress Dominate PartyPoker MILLIONS World
PartyPoker generally puts most of its attention and efforts into online poker, naturally. But PartyPoker LIVE offers players the chance to take those online poker skills to the live tables and compete for millions of dollars in prize pools.
The PartyPoker LIVE events are many and span the world, the most lucrative being PartyPoker MILLIONS events. But one of them combines all of the exciting aspects of PartyPoker tournament series and puts them into motion on an island in the Caribbean.
The MILLIONS World Bahamas, also known as the Caribbean Poker Party, is that one.
Full Schedule
This year’s series took place at the Baha Mar Resort. However, it kicked off with an online charity tournament to benefit the victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas on October 13, and proceeded with numerous online satellites and online starting flights of tournaments.
The welcome party hosted players, friends, and family on November 15 at the resort. The next day, the MILLIONS Mini Main Event got underway and took players through a full series of 17 tournaments that wrapped up on November 23.
More than $10 million was allocated to guaranteed prize pools.
All Event Winners
The initial tournaments ranged from $300 buy-ins to a Poker Central-sponsored Super High Roller Bowl with a $250K buy-in.
Event 1: $1K NLHE Mini Main Event with $1M GTD
Starting Days: 2
Entries: 1,075
Prize pool: $1,042,750
Paid players: 153
Minimum payout: $2,000
Winner: Christopher Brammer (England) $165,000
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Event 2: $250K NLHE Super High Roller Bowl
Entries: 51 (37 players)
Prize pool: $12,750,000
Paid players: 8
Minimum payout: $510,000
Winner: Daniel Dvoress (Canada) $4,080,000
Event 3: $10K NLHE High Roller with $1M GTD
Entries: 122
Prize pool: $1,220,000
Paid players: 17
Minimum payout: $25,000
Winner: Anatoly Filatov (Russia) $280,000
Event 4: $2K NLHE Warm-Up
Entries: 155
Prize pool: $300,700
Paid players: 20
Minimum payout: $4,000
Winner: Brandon Shells (England) $75,000
Event 5: $25K NLHE Super High Roller with $2M GTD
Entries: 125
Prize pool: $3,125,000
Paid players: 17
Minimum payout: $60,000
Winner: Adrian Mateos (Spain) $520,464
Event 6: $1K NLHE Turbo Bounty (no results found)
Event 7: $10K NLHE Main Event with $10M GTD
Starting Days: 2
Entries: 948
Prize pool: $9,480,000 ($10M to meet guarantee)
Paid players: 135
Minimum payout: $20,000
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Event 8: $25K Short Deck Hold’em
Entries: 45
Prize pool: $1,091,250
Paid players: 6
Minimum payout: $70,000
Winner: Daniel Dvoress (Canada) $375,000
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Event 9: $500 NLHE Hyper Turbo (no results found)
Event 10: $500 NLHE Hyper Turbo 6-Max (no results found)
Event 11: $500 NLHE Bounty (no results found)
Event 12: $10K High Roller Finale with $1M GTD
Entries: 205
Prize pool: $2,050,000
Paid players: 29
Minimum payout: $25,000
Winner: Norbert Szecsi (Hungary) $400,000
Event 13: $300 NLHE Turbo (no results found)
Event 14: $1K PLO
Entries: 104
Prize pool: $100,800
Paid players: 15
Minimum payout: $2,500
Winner: Mike Leah (Canada) $24,000
Event 15: $500 NLHE Closer
Entries: 158
Prize pool: $76,630
Paid players: 23
Minimum payout: $1,250
Winner: Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Greece) $16,000
Event 16: $25K NLHE Super High Roller Finale
Entries: 52
Prize pool: $1,261,000
Paid players: 7
Minimum payout: $75,000
Winner: Wai Chan (Malaysia) $380,000
Event 17: $1K NLHE Last Chance Turbo
Entries: 184
Prize pool: $178,480
Paid players: 27
Minimum payout: $2,250
Winner: Nino Ullmann (Germany) $40,000
Unscheduled: $50K NLHE
Entries: 63 (43 players)
Prize pool: $3,055,500
Paid players: 9
Minimum payout: $125,000
Winner: Richard Yong (Malaysia) $850,000
Two Double Winners
Canadian Daniel Dvoress hails from Ontario and has live tournament cashes dating back to 2013. He has played everything from $1K buy-ins to Super High Roller events. While his list of accomplishments shows numerous final tables and large cashes, his first win didn’t happen until the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), when he won a $25K NLHE event for $73,785.
Enter the PartyPoker MILLIONS World Bahamas, and Dvoress had a solid series. He finished tenth in the High Roller Finale, but he won two major tournaments. The first was the Super High Roller Bowl with a $250K buy-in and first-place payout of $4.08 million. Days later, he won the $25K Short Deck event for $375K.
That’s not a bad way to spend time in the Bahamas, boosting his lifetime live tournament winnings to more than $15.5 million.
Then there was Adrian Mateos, a sponsored pro representing French site Winamax. Mateos has been active in live and online poker for nearly a decade, though his first live win wasn’t until 2012 in Madrid. From there, however, he quickly jumped onto the global scene by winning the PokerStars-sponsored ESPT Main Event in Madrid in 2013 for more than €103K.
Mateos won the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2013 for €1 million and a gold bracelet, won the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo in 2015 for more than €1 million, and won his second WSOP bracelet in 2016 in a $1,500 NLHE event for more than $409K. In 2017, he won his third WSOP gold in the $10K NLHE Heads-Up Championship for more than $336K. That same year, Mateos won the PartyPoker Caribbean Poker Party Finale tournament for $250K.
His latest wins at the MILLIONS World Bahamas garnered $520K for the $25K Super High Roller victory and then $1.16 million for taking down the Main Event.
Mateos also had a solid trip to the Bahamas, and he took his lifetime live tournament winnings up to $19.4 million.
